Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

From the November 1985 Issue of Car and Driver. Some of us have a taste for fine imports. Wines, cheeses, leather wear, movies, shotguns, lovers—there's sometimes a certain saveur built into such ...

Merkurs are some of our favorite cars. Flickr pool member sncollins has a nice ’88 XR4Ti he’s been wheeling around for the last 20,000 miles or so. Powered by the tough-as-nails 2.3 liter turbocharged ...

From the March/April 2025 issue of Car and Driver. To our chaotic shores the Big Three have randomly imported Euro-spec cars. Apart from tear gas, little has more reliably induced regret and ...

American gearheads often complain that European automakers never send their best vehicles Stateside. There's a good reason for that: Americans usually don't buy them. No car drove that point home ...

It has been a while since the gates to Project Car Hell last creaked open, so we've decided to turn up the temperature in the Lake of Fire (which we use as a parts-washer in the Hell Garage) and order ...

Few things are sadder than a decent car that doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up. That, in a nutshell, is the Merkur XR4Ti, Ford’s ill-fated attempt to transform the European Sierra into ...

The 1980s were a time of radical thinking, big hair, big music, big changes in the world, and trying new big ideas. The auto-world was no exception. Around thirty years ago, we were treated to some of ...